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Psychedelic drugs and river water bugs
15. apr. 2021 31m

This month: the first self-blinded study into microdosing psychedelics, using DNA analysis to understand what bacteria is in river water, and what's t...

Egyptian baboons and overlooked COVID genes
23. feb. 2021 35m

This month: how a dose of magnesium can improve long-term memory, scientists scrutinise the world's sourdough microbes, and evidence that we're overlo...

Sea slugs and anti-sickness drugs
17. dec. 2020 32m

This month we hear about the animals that turn their dinner into solar panels, the first images of anti-nausea drug molecules engaging with their rece...

AI for infertility, and scar-free healing
13. nov. 2020 31m

This month we hear about an artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough for infertility, how ketamine can mimic some of the decision-making difficulties...

Prostate cancer prediction and bonobo culture
8. okt. 2020 35m

This month on the eLife podcast, artificial intelligence reveals a better test for prostate cancer, is the brain stuffed with neuronal stem cells, bon...

Ears, hearts, and halting Huntington's
4. sep. 2020 32m

This month on the eLife Podcast we hear about why whale-watching boats are just too noisy, how oily fish combats heart failure, breakthroughs in halti...

Sugar on the brain, HIV, and science sex bias
30. jun. 2020 36m

This month on the eLife Podcast we look at how sugar takes away the pleasure of consuming and makes you eat more, we find out what loneliness does to ...

Sparrows, cavefish and fighting fungus
1. jun. 2020 31m

This month we explore how genetic plasticity enables sparrows to live alongside us and fish to evolve rapidly to life in caves. We also hear why "Test...

Why do bats carry so many dread diseases?
3. apr. 2020 29m

This month, why screening at airports for Covid19 is unlikely to work, how flight forced bat viruses to become virulent, MRI scans of throat singers r...

The plants with three parents
6. mar. 2020 35m

This month, new hearing tests to spot those likely to struggle with speech in noisy environments, how your DNA is at risk from hacking on a public dat...

Zika immunity and falling body temperatures
6. feb. 2020 35m

Have these paralysed patients helped to reveal the brain basis of why we gesticulate when we talk? Also, new insights into how the body clock keeps tr...

Tardigrades and the Ten Commandments
20. dec. 2019 31m

What accounts for the bomb-proof biology of the tardigrade? How do ants avoid traffic jams? Why thou shalt not abuse statistics in 2020, do badgers tr...

How many new mutations from Mum and Dad?
31. okt. 2019 35m

This month, join Chris Smith to hear how sleep deprivation sends your endocannabinoids skyrocketing and triggers a tendency to binge, how many new gen...

Astronauts, geese and realistic retinas
26. sep. 2019 40m

This month, doctors doing U-turns: the medical practices without much evidence to prop them up, wind-tunnel experiments reveal how geese fly at extrem...

Brain basis of blindsight
9. jul. 2019 34m

This month, the blind monkey that lacks a visual cortex but can still see, the bee-hunting wasps that use a gas cloud to keep harmful fungi at bay, ad...

Malaria and Myrmecophiles
30. maj 2019 31m

This month, stunning fossil remains of a beetle that evolved to exploit ants and appeared rapidly after ants became social themselves, how inflammatio...

Vaccines and viral swarms
26. apr. 2019 32m

How the brain handles sensations from amputated body parts, evidence that government vaccination campaigns to target measles really work, the heel-pri...

Weaponised insulin
29. mar. 2019 27m

The shellfish that release insulin into the water to catch fish, brain activity patterns that predict future addictions, how to do gene drive experime...

Dodgy cells and big neurons
26. feb. 2019 34m

Why one in five published papers that use cultured cells may be wrong, the frog that sings underwater without air, genes that make you live longer, se...

Insect Farmers and oxytocin
29. jan. 2019 36m

This month in the eLife Podcast, how scientists got oestrogen signalling all wrong in breast cancer, fungus-farming ants and their microbial helpers, ...

Fossil Flowers, and Fur Seal Parasites
19. dec. 2018 31m

In this episode of the eLife Podcast, the nerves with a taste for salt, why fur seal pups succumb to hookworms, the oldest fossilised flowers ever fou...

Transmissible Tumours and LSD Receptors
13. nov. 2018 34m

The wildlife impact of urban sprawl, how climate change will affect the distribution of mosquito-borne outbreaks, Devil Facial Tumour Disease 2, how L...

Inside Your Microbiome
7. okt. 2018 31m

This special edition of the eLife Podcast marks our 50th episode and we've decided to mark the milestone by focusing on a field that's huge and tiny b...

Pigeon patterning and stiff lungs
19. aug. 2018 28m

In this episode of the eLife Podcast, we hear about the RNA world, bovine TB, lung fibrosis, and why rock pigeons have different wing patterns... Get ...

Bugs and Drugs, and Chocolate Cake
3. jul. 2018 31m

In this episode of the eLife Podcast, signs that trees exchange genes over hundreds of kilometres, how our gut bacteria protect us from plant toxins, ...

BatNav, TB and Aspirin
30. maj 2018 34m

In this eLife Podcast, echolocation in bats, chemical probes for open science, using aspirin to manage TB meningitis, brain topography, and combining ...

Robin Hood and Autism
27. mar. 2018 37m

How much of the world's scientific literature now sits in SciHub, we hear why statins might be making diabetes worse, if oxygen did - or didn't - hold...

Ant Undertakers and the Human Cell Atlas
26. feb. 2018 32m

In this episode, we hear about disease control in insects, placental development, post-traumatic stress disorder, the mission to create a human cell a...

Sperm Competitions
16. jan. 2018 30m

In this episode, we hear about self-esteem, a new genus of extinct horse, the future of biological engineering, tracking mosquitoes with mobile phones...

Is science getting harder to understand?
22. nov. 2017 30m

In this episode, we hear about tool use in monkeys, sleep regulation, marsupial placentas, health campaigns and why science papers are so hard to read...